The Alpine Experience

After years of experimenting with the group Alpine Jazz Herd to get access to the nucleus of Swiss Alpine music by means of improvisation, Hans Kennel founded The Alpine Experience. It was an important step to get closer top the core of typical Alpine music, still by means of improvisation, but with more respect for the already existing, rich variety of these musical sources and his personal roots.
While Rosa Loui is mainly instrumental (with the exception of Kennel’s natural Juz “Am Hans Sine” and two songs composed on two poems by famous poet Kurt Marti). A Call from the Alps is a testimony of a of a fascinatinbg year-long cooperation with the outstanding female-voice quartet “s’Heuis”, or the Schönbächler Sisters. Four young women whose untempered, bell-clear voices surprisingly remind one of the voices from Bulgaria. However they are deep in an almost disappearing tradtion of the native canton Schwyz, including the Muotatal.
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Discography

Mytha Three
An Alphorn Polyphony and Songbook

The most recent studio recording of MYTHA quartet. A rich array of very contrasting pieces of music. From multiphonic introductions, over polyphonic orchestrations of an archaic Call from the Muotatal, up to Beethoven’s Hymn “ Freude schooner Götterfunken”, not to forget many MYTHA grooving pieces, partly in odd meters
TCB 01 102

Stella

Feat. Mark Soskin
TCB 97102

Piplines

New church music for trumpet and organ
Feat. John Wolf Brennan
Leo Records LR 292

Habarigani Two

Improvised Chamber Music
HATart 6064

Steve Lacey Double Sextet:
Clangs

HATart 6116

Steve Lacey 6: We See

HATart 6127

Gäzig

2013-2014
Christine Lauterberg, Hans Kennel, Regina Steiner

Chriesibaum im Jahresring

Alpine poems and soundscapes
Feat. Betty Legler
MGB 6192

Broken Dreams

Another type of tango
Feat. Alexandra Prusa
MWI 2015

Habarigani Brass

HATart 6185

Mytha
How it all Started

After a short out-of-print period, these first historic recordings are now partly available again in this compilation. The then revolutionary music that triggered an avalanche of new alphorn playing, sounds fresh and daring as ever and has lost none of its original energy. An ear-opener!
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